“All the beauty in you holds me, my love,” Egyptian artist BOSA, formerly known as Bosaina, sings softly and ethereally in Arabic in her latest dream-pop single, Shat Geded (A New Shore, 2025). The crashing waves, the vivid bursts of the pink flamingo ride, and the sea-lit glow of the music video are not the only images that conjure the feeling of the seashore. There is another shoreline unfolding beneath it all; one that lives within her mind, visible only through the song’s dreamlike haze and drifting beauty. Using vintage-style film grain and warm, sun-drenched shots of a coastline, the song gently takes the hand of its listeners and leads them into the dreamy interior of BOSA’s mind, a place where all the beauty in the world can reveal itself through a single moment, or even through the gaze of one lover. It is the kind of music one can completely sink into, or that can accompany a long, warm bath. While dream-pop is often linked to Western influences from the 1980s or the psychedelic rock scene of the late 1960s, BOSA takes the genre in a different direction,…
